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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Thursday, July 27, 2023

THE BARBENHEIMER EFFECT!

Caught between the Pink Wave and the Atomic Bomb!

From WIKIPEDIA: Barbenheimer is an Internet phenomenon that began circulating on social media before the simultaneous theatrical release of two blockbuster films, Barbie and Oppenheimer, on July 21, 2023, in the United States and several other countries. The word is a portmanteau of the films' titles. The dramatic difference between Barbie—a fantasy comedy by Greta Gerwig about the fashion doll Barbie—and Oppenheimer—an epic biographical thriller by Christopher Nolan about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II—prompted a comedic response from Internet users, including memes and merchandise. Polygon described the two films as "extreme opposites", and Variety called the phenomenon "the movie event of the year".

Thursday, July 13, 2023

The Digital De-Aging Process in Movies

Watching the fifth and last Indiana Jones movie, you can spot one of the latest developments in SFX, namely, the digital de-aging process. According to Wikipedia: "In motion pictures, whether for film (cinema), television, or streaming, de-aging is a visual effects technique used to make an actor or actress look younger, especially for flashback scenes. This is often accomplished via digitally editing the image or using computer-generated imagery (CGI) overlays or touch-ups."

In cartoons, the process is very easily achieved, as you can see here:

In real life pictures, the process is more complicated, but the results are similar:

However, the question remains: why can't they create something like this on real human beings?

Monday, July 3, 2023

Reaching the 72nd Mark!

But in real life...it was a great celebration with my son and grandkids!

Thursday, June 29, 2023

THE FLOOR IS LAVA!

Recent activity from the Popo volcano, about 32 miles from my home, have set the red alert warning all over the area. Of course, no lava yet in my living room which, incidentally, is on a third floor.

Thursday, May 18, 2023

SENIOR ROAD RUNNER

Try running after your four year old granddaughter when you are 71 and you will immediately

sympathize with Wile E. Coyote's efforts to catch the Road Runner!

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Way back in 1985, I was hired as a writer/actor for two new TV shows which premiered on Imevision Channel 7 before it became today's TV Azteca. Both were weekly series, both were just a string of comedy sketches in the spirit of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live and both were cancelled after about 25 episodes, (along with three other shows which formed Channel 7's comedy schedule). Channel 7 and Imevision were sold to private investors and the entire staff and talent was dismissed and replaced. And so...the world was saved!

For those interested in such trivia, the 2 shows I did were EL HUMOR ES UNA COSA ESPLENDOROSA (”Humor Is A Many Splendored Thing") and MANDARINA MECÁNICA ("A Clockwork Tangerine").